Banks

Vo-Dinh will relocate to Hong Kong in July from Sydney, where she was Natixis' head of acquisition and strategic finance, Australia; there are several other regional appointments at the French bank.

Zhang Wenjie will return to the bank as Citi’s country officer and banking head for China in July.

Standard Chartered is providing full FX services with more services expected in Q4; FA understands that FalconX will partner with more banks soon.

Pei-Si Lai, CEO of GXBank, Malaysia's first digital banking firm, will take over from Muthukrishnan Ramaswami, who is retiring, at the beginning of June.

Mehra has started the Hong Kong-based newly created role on May 12, joining from Goldman Sachs.

ASIC is asking for an independent expert to review a remediation plan for the trade reporting functions of Macquarie's futures dealing and OTC derivatives; ASIC commissioner Simone Constant said that the action "underscores" the regulator's concerns with the "recurrent" nature of Macquarie's failures.

A new loan for the Chinese conglomerate included a greenshoe option and involved Chinese and international banks.

Chan will join from Goldman Sachs as head of markets solutions for financial institutions for Asia South and Asia North in July.

FA recently caught up with Jo Miyake, head of banking, Asia and Middle East at HSBC Corporate and Institutional Banking, on capital allocation shifts, cross-border opportunities, sustainable financing and regulation.